Nostalgia TV

So much so, that I’ve had to make the big sister a Rainbow Brite costume because it’s not 1984 and I can’t just buy one from the shops. It all began when we were all hanging out in my bed one Saturday morning. Too young for regular Saturday cartoons, I showed my kids a YouTube video of The Wombles. Then Henry’s Cat. Each day was something new, we watched endless episodes of The Sooty Show (this was Biggie’s favourite episode, mine was when they were teaching how to count by counting cups of tea), we watched the Care Bears Movie, and nobody was interested in Pound Puppies but me.

Was that Fat Tulip’s Garden? I have vague memories of loving that too. I was a massive Care Bears fan – my neighbor taped over the VHS copy she had because I demanded to watch it every time I was over there! Ninja Turtles also ruled.

I am actually in a really bad mood with modern children’s TV today. For the first time this morning my 2 year old daughter told me that a cartoon was for boys, not for girls (It was Max Steel) and there was no persuading her until she saw a female character on there.

I loved this trip down Memory Lane. I loved the Mr Men, Pipkins and Bagpuss, but you’d have to be an old fogey and have grown up in the mother country to remember them. They just don’t make programmes like they used to! Oh, and the Wombles. Weren’t they the cutest?

I loved fraggle rock! I bought it years ago on DVD s my kiddies could share in my childhood, thankfully they loved it too! We are all big Jim Henson fans in this house. Another favourite was Monkey Magic, that show was so weird but awesome!